Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

If these actions were performed by a teenage idol girl, perhaps they’d seem cute, but when Yang Yu thinks about them being performed by an elf who is two or three thousand years old, pretending to be youthful... the feeling suddenly becomes quite nuanced.

Yang Yu is afraid that Mingtu Saiqiute will suddenly jump out and say, ”I am forever eighteen years old, and everyone should always remember me as eighteen!”

Though knowing that the other is pretending to be youthful, Yang Yu still tried his best to suppress the urge to make a snarky comment.

Yang Yu had seen similar scenes in the records of the giant dragon; he knew that the past Elf Queen often liked to act as though she was very young, as if living for two or three thousand years was merely a façade.

Fortunately, during serious times, she didn’t act so quirky, and she seemed quite trustworthy.

The most reactive to the appearance of the previous Elf Queen was, naturally, Iyas.

After realizing the Demon was Mingtu Saiqiute in disguise, Iyas quickly put away her bows and arrows, intending to kneel and apologize to the Queen of Mingtu Saiqiu. But, just as she was halfway down, Iyas straightened back up, simply performing a polite bow and briefly apologizing for her earlier rudeness.

Mingtu Saiqiute also noticed Iyas’ previous actions, her lips uncontrollably curling upwards with amusement.

Letting his companions drop their guard, Yang Yu said to Mingtu Saiqiute: ”Former Elf Queen, Queen of Mingtu Saiqiu, I’ve long heard of your great name. I have some things I’d like to ask, would you oblige?”

”Certainly,” Mingtu Saiqiute didn’t refuse, ”You don’t have to be so formal; too much formality I can’t really stand.

During the years when I was the Elf Queen, everyone treated me with reverence.

Obviously, I hoped everyone could be more amiable towards me...

Perhaps, this is the Queen’s effect.

Thanks to it, I was forced to keep a stern face every day, afraid of trampling on their image of the Queen.

Finally, I am free of it, and having died, I don’t want to live as restrained as before.

Whatever you want to chat about, just come in and talk! Treat this place as your home.

And since I am a ghost, you’ll have to prepare tea, snacks, and the like yourself.”

As she spoke, Mingtu Saiqiute sank into the ground, and in the blink of an eye, she appeared behind Yang Yu, playfully poking his back with her forefinger, she smiled mischievously and turned to enter her room.

She lightly waved her hand, causing pillars to shrink and transform into a table.

Stretching her hand into the Treasure Box, she took out a key, and with a flirtatious gesture, hung the key around her chest.

Since Mingtu Saiqiute said so, Yang Yu followed her lead and sat casually at the table as she requested.

Before Yang Yu could speak, Mingtu Saiqiute stretched and smiled: ”I’ve seen the footage of your passing, first congratulations on clearing the Ninth and Tenth Floors in such a short time, I really didn’t expect someone to complete these two floors so quickly.

This was far from what I envisioned when building this maze.

Logically, you should have struggled with the square on the Ninth Floor like the previous lizard people, learning from repeated failures, and achieving breakthrough in the end.

Yet, you directly tackled it from the start, easily completing the test on the Ninth Floor.

On the Tenth Floor, facing the full firepower of the Green Fire Phoenix, you seemed to handle it smoothly.

The designs above were meant to challenge human will, but to judge a team or an individual by time to determine if they have strong will, I find not so good.

Surely you realized the genuine test this Underground Maze intended to present, hence you passed these trials smoothly, right?

Seeing through this, you are eligible to obtain this key.

You must have strategized similar Underground Mazes many times.”

”Indeed, having strategized many mazes before, it’s why I’m so adept now,” Yang Yu echoed.

Mingtu Saiqiute didn’t seem surprised and continued to smile:

”About my story..... realizing the guardian of this maze was me, I was truly surprised.

Our story continues to spread widely?

How did you get the hint?”

Faced with Mingtu Saiqiute’s question, Yang Yu answered truthfully: ”Previously strategized Lox’s Underground Maze, seen the guardians of those mazes.

After the Dragon God Conference ended, I viewed your team’s adventure through the giant dragon’s record.

The Equipment obtained by completing the Underground Maze seemed somewhat related to the maze’s guardian...

Plus, the Healing Skill you just used made me determine that the one guarding this maze was you.”

”Dragon God Conference? You managed through it, doesn’t seem surprising.” Mingtu Saiqiute propped her cheeks, ”But really surprising, besides me, someone else accepted such a task.”

”I think if it’s a request from former Hero Lox who once saved the world, not many would refuse, right?” Yang Yu pretended to reflect, ”Let’s start from Hero Lox. Before you were summoned here, you must have met Hero Lox, did you hear anything from him?”

”I didn’t see Hero Lox when I was summoned,” Mingtu Saiqiute replied.

”Hmm?” Yang Yu was taken aback, ”Then who summoned you and tasked you with guarding this Underground Maze?”

”Hero’s daughter,” Mingtu Saiqiute answered without hesitation.

Yang Yu cocked his head, he hadn’t heard of such a figure before, Yang Yu remembered that until Hero Lox returned to the Village of Heroes, Hero Lox had always been single, how could a daughter suddenly emerge?

”Does Hero have a daughter?” Yang Yu asked with great uncertainty.

Mingtu Saiqiute frowned and retorted: ”You read Lox’s adventure story only to the point he defeated the Demon King, and didn’t follow what happened afterward?”

With a sigh, Yang Yu revealed the rules of the giant dragon’s world monitor.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to follow Hero Lox’s life.

It’s just that some periods of Hero Lox’s life were too bland, and the giant dragon shifted its focus away from him, to others with greater potential to change the world.

After hearing Yang Yu’s explanation, Mingtu Saiqiute also seemed somewhat helpless:

”Nothing can be done then, I had hoped to learn about Hero Lox’s romantic background from you.

There should be many who admir him, but few truly reach his heart...

Even me...

Better not to mention old matters.”

Through Lox’s adventures, Yang Yu discerned Mingtu Saiqiute once admired Lox, but impeded by her identity as the Elf Queen, she ultimately chose to depart from the hero’s party post-adventure.

With Mingtu Saiqiute showing an obvious don’t-ask expression, Yang Yu wisely refrained from gossiping, instead continuing to discuss the topic of the Hero’s daughter:

”The person you saw, Hero’s daughter... what sort of person is she?”